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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1993
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery NovelFirst published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Sm...



  • National BestsellerStrange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by whi...



  • Through a series of vividly imaginative and wildly colorful characters, Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanyi...



  • The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple -- Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene -- a sleeping beauty drowsing gently in an alcoholic stupor -- is the beautiful and disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavior ...



  • These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929.In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storytelle...



  • Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradi...



  • “A delightful novel” and international bestseller from the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow (Guardian) Danish siblings search for their missing parents -- eccentric ‘miracle-makers’ -- in this whimsical tale about faith and the magic of ever...



  • Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy ...



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    The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder....





Award-Winning Books by Peter Hoeg

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1994 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Hoeg has published 9 books.

Peter Hoeg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Susan Effect, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow, was published in September 1993.

No. Peter Hoeg does not write books in series.